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Disciples Home Missions
A ministry of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Connecting the WHOLE Body to the WHOLE Mission
Special Needs
Physical Disabilities, Mental Disabilities, & Emotional Struggles
This is a place you can go to find support for all forms of disability struggles. You will find resources for autism, depression, attention disorders, physical disabilities, and more.
Resources
Beginning Guidelines and Resources for an Inclusive Church
Training, Curricula & Safety Forms Special Needs Smart Pages: Advice, Answers and Articles About Teaching Children with Special Needs by Joni Eareckson Tada
Red Fish Theology / Parables - A How to Guide for Offering a Radically Inclusive Worship Service with the Special Needs Community
Misunderstood Minds (A PBS documentary)
Books
Child by Child: Supporting Children with Learning Differences and Their Families
by Susan Richardson
Helping Kids Include Kids with Disabilities
by Barbara J. Newman
A Place Called Acceptance: Ministry with Families of Children with Disabilities
by Kathleen Deyer Bolduc
Autism and Your Church: Nurturing the Spiritual Growth of People with Autism Spectrum
by Barbara J Newman
Faith, Family, and Children with Special Needs
by David Rizzo
Everybody Is Different: A Book for Young People Who Have Brothers or Sisters With Autism by Fiona Bleach
Maddie: Teaching Tolerance with a Smile by Sean O'Brien
Mental Health
National Benevolent Association: Mental Health Wellness
Pandemic/Hybrid Responses
Mental Health America
The Youth Mental Health Project
Trauma Informed Ministry
National Benevolent Association
Excerpt from: Worried Sick
Worried Sick: A Journey into the Anxious Teenage Mind
National Alliance on Mental Illness/Texas
United Church of Christ Mental Health Network
WISE (Welcoming, Inclusive, Supportive, and Engaged) for mental health
Sarah Griffith Lund
Free online mental health screening
Finch App (Mindfulness for Kids)
Addiction and Pastoral Care by Sonia E. Waters
Well Fed Spirit
*Invite someone who works in mental health at the university in town to talk with the middle and high school youth.
Online Ministries
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The Inclusive Church
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Key Ministry
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Christian Learning Center Church Services
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Faith Inclusion Network
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Friendship Ministries
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Joni and Friends
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Nathaniel’s Hope
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Chosen Families
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PURE Ministries
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Disability Is Natural
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99 Ballons
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Faith Ability: Religion and Disability Resources
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Disabled Christianity
Online Parent Support
Parent Blogs
Organizations
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy
United Cerebral Palsy
Blindness: American Council for the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind
Alzheimer’s Association
Hearing Impairments: DOOR International, National Association of the DeafNational Alliance on Mental Illness
Autism: Autism Outreach, Inc., US Autism & Asperger Association
LD OnLine
ADHD: Children and Adults with AD/HD, ADDitude
This page was last updated by WS 7/21
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